Island Of Misfits

[joeb631a]

The neoprene gloves thing is a *relatively recent phenom in auto repair. I never used them because they made my hands sweat, and that gave me a feeling of lack of control over whatever I was holding, but I gotta tell ya', keeping your hands clean takes some effort, unless you want to sit across the table with a new hottie date while having solid black fingernails.

I did not, and my wife is too fine for me to put greasy hands on her. So I scrubbed them. I scrubbed them at work between jobs, and I scrubbed them (with a dedicated fingernail brush, too) when I got in the shower every night. I never left my house with dirty fingernails.

On another note, there are lots of caustic chemicals in an auto repair shop. Brake Kleen and Carb Spray and gas and oil and all kinds of other fluids, and most guys just want to keep those off their hands. I kinda wish I'd been a bit more aware of such things as I was coming up in the ranks. My skin is like rice rolling papers it's so thin.

*as in the mid-late 90's, maybe?

I remember cleaning up with MEK poisonous stuff ,flammable.

 

[NewbOldster]

I remember cleaning up with MEK poisonous stuff ,flammable.

Yep. I worked in a cultured marble shop when my cousin opened it up. I was there for a year and a half. MEK was the hardener for the resin, I think. We used acetone, too...with bare hands. Cleaned everything with it. Some folks say it makes your fingernails grow faster.

 

[NewbOldster]

I worked with my hands my whole life .When they got real scubby I would wash the dishes

My hands have always been my living, and now I'm old and retireded. LMAO!

 

[Unca Walt]

I used to pay $.50 cents a box .
We were in a school that had a rifle team and may have been bought cheaper because of it
That was 1968

Yowza. I bought uncountable boxes of 50 for fitty cent. A brick was $4.95 so ya kinda got five free bullets.

 

[Unca Walt]

I seem to recall going to KMart and buying boxes of 50 ea .22 LR for 50 cents, or a quarter on sale. That would've been in the mid '60's.

My Daddy would not let me have a BB gun. He absolutely knew I'd pop somebody with it. (He was probably right). So I was allowed to save up and get a .22 rifle.

I think there may have been some other benefits: I reduced the woodchuck population with it. Crows, too. A BB gun... meh.

 

[Hippie420]

speaking of big blocks...

My father had a duce and a half '55 Chevy when I was a sprite.

Is that one yours?

 

[Unca Walt]

Damn Grape Haze..10 1/2 wks in and needs another week! I don't mind running a plant 80 days or longer....but they always start showing nanners before the trichs turn. I feel like I am in a banana grove!

On a good note I moved more starts into soil....the next generation is coming along fine.

Whut'd he say?

 

[boo]

Whut'd he say?

weed lingo walt...weed lingo...

 

[pute]

No habla Ingles.....

Whut'd he say?

Walt, you have been on these forums for quite some time now. You sound like a migrant from S Florida that has been in county for a decade and can't speak a word of English....ha ha!

 

[Unca Walt]

weed lingo walt...weed lingo...

Yabbut... that's like me speaking some Mandarin. You kin hear it, read it, and still sit there guessing. I'll live. I really get a kick out of all I've learned from youse guys.

If I am an average dude (and I think I am), then I gotta 'fess up what most dummies innocents (like I useta be) believe that you just take some seeds, scatter them in the woods, and come back ten weeks later and harvest pine cone-sized buds. Oh, and this *** thing... it just means the buds might be smaller on the males.

Of course, I have learned a ton now. Now I know it is a fargin intensive care ICU operation done with horrendous expense and effort.

And I still dunno the lingo. Crikey, I just had a great idea: I could teach you guys how to speak Mandarin. That way, when the Chicoms buy the USA, y'all can get jobs by opening an American Hand Laundry no, you can supply them with top-notch weed that will calm them down and get them laid back.

 

[NewbOldster]

My Daddy would not let me have a BB gun. He absolutely knew I'd pop somebody with it. (He was probably right). So I was allowed to save up and get a .22 rifle.

I think there may have been some other benefits: I reduced the woodchuck population with it. Crows, too. A BB gun... meh.

We might be twins. My Dad wouldn't let me have a BB gun or a pellet gun either, but I got a Marlin Model 60 for my 12th birthday.

We had rats. I'd put sweet feed out in the pasture, then pick 'em off at dawn, one by one. They'd keep eating as their companions fell beside them, sometimes. I hate rodents. I include squirrels in that group.

 

[Unca Walt]

No habla Ingles.....

Walt, you have been on these forums for quite some time now. You sound like a migrant from S Florida that has been in county for a decade and can't speak a word of English....ha ha!

Pute syansheng, wo (syau haidz) dzai Yalu Daswye schwei jungwen . Keshr, hen jyou... wo tai ben. Nide shr lau-fu. Jile.

Trans: Mr. Pute, sir, I (as a young 'un) was at Yale University where I learned to speak Mandarin. But... much time has passed and now I am too dense to learn. Nide You guys are great scholars/masters of art. Hugely.

NOTE: I actually began thinking in Mandarin while putting in the translation and type "nide" instead of "you guys".

It is pronounced, "need-ah" "jungwen" is "joong one" literally: Chinese speech.

 

[RosterMan]

A bench seat gets my motor running

It is also your Big azz will fit comfortably in don't lie

 

[RosterMan]

Pute syansheng, wo (syau haidz) dzai Yalu Daswye schwei jungwen . Keshr, hen jyou... wo tai ben. Nide shr lau-fu. Jile.

Trans: Mr. Pute, sir, I (as a young 'un) was at Yale University where I learned to speak Mandarin. But... much time has passed and now I am too dense to learn. Nide You guys are great scholars/masters of art. Hugely.

NOTE: I actually began thinking in Mandarin while putting in the translation and type "nide" instead of "you guys".

It is pronounced, "need-ah" "jungwen" is "joong one" literally: Chinese speech.

Putt III, I (Shazels) Deyja Ruidas Visawei. Keith, very about... I'm too Ben. Yours Serrau-service. Extremely. That is what I saw

 

[Unca Walt]

Here is a party trick: I can have any one of you thinking in Mandarin in less than three minutes.

I might even be able to do it here. Be tougher, though, because I could not hold up objects for you to name.

But the first paragraph is Gospel. I really can teach you to think in Mandarin that quickly -- and it is no joke.

 

[NewbOldster]

Yabbut... that's like me speaking some Mandarin. You kin hear it, read it, and still sit there guessing. I'll live. I really get a kick out of all I've learned from youse guys.

If I am an average dude (and I think I am), then I gotta 'fess up what most dummies innocents (like I useta be) believe that you just take some seeds, scatter them in the woods, and come back ten weeks later and harvest pine cone-sized buds. Oh, and this *** thing... it just means the buds might be smaller on the males.

Of course, I have learned a ton now. Now I know it is a fargin intensive care ICU operation done with horrendous expense and effort.

And I still dunno the lingo. Crikey, I just had a great idea: I could teach you guys how to speak Mandarin. That way, when the Chicoms buy the USA, y'all can get jobs by opening an American Hand Laundry no, you can supply them with top-notch weed that will calm them down and get them laid back.

"Of course, I have learned a ton now. Now I know it is a fargin intensive care ICU operation done with horrendous expense and effort."

I smoked my first joint at 14. At 66, I knew nothing of any of this stuff until I put a seed in a pot last spring. It's a bit overwhelming to me. I don't even know the lingo, or terminology yet.

 

[joeb631a]

My hands have always been my living, and now I'm old and retireded. LMAO!

me2 and a source of a lifetime of "memories "

 

[pute]

Pute syansheng, wo (syau haidz) dzai Yalu Daswye schwei jungwen . Keshr, hen jyou... wo tai ben. Nide shr lau-fu. Jile.

Trans: Mr. Pute, sir, I (as a young 'un) was at Yale University where I learned to speak Mandarin. But... much time has passed and now I am too dense to learn. Nide You guys are great scholars/masters of art. Hugely.

NOTE: I actually began thinking in Mandarin while putting in the translation and type "nide" instead of "you guys".

It is pronounced, "need-ah" "jungwen" is "joong one" literally: Chinese speech.

Que? Guess you shut me up!

 

[boo]

My father had a duce and a half '55 Chevy when I was a sprite.

Is that one yours?

yessir, my first complete build, everything but the paint...

 

[pute]

Pute syansheng, wo (syau haidz) dzai Yalu Daswye schwei jungwen . Keshr, hen jyou... wo tai ben. Nide shr lau-fu. Jile.

Trans: Mr. Pute, sir, I (as a young 'un) was at Yale University where I learned to speak Mandarin. But... much time has passed and now I am too dense to learn. Nide You guys are great scholars/masters of art. Hugely.

NOTE: I actually began thinking in Mandarin while putting in the translation and type "nide" instead of "you guys".

It is pronounced, "need-ah" "jungwen" is "joong one" literally: Chinese speech.

You went to Yale....I went to Heartbreak Ridge....bet we could beat you at football!